Duncan will be appearing for the Local Author night at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Middleton, RI on Wednesday, November 10, 2010. The event begins at 7pm. Copies of The Secret Art will be available for purchase.

Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.

A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language. Then, the tree lets the world know how he feels. Follow the life of the talking tree via Twitter, Flickr, Soundcloud and friend him on Facebook.